Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Satan will advocate that it is cool to doubt spiritual gifts and the teachings of true prophets.

Michael Klein

We are definitely a strong advocate of in-services because we feel it really puts the rubber to the road. I think it?s a pretty important part of the whole cycle. When you?re talking about expensive equipment it?s something that has to be done.

Nancy Werlin

I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea.

Nina Easton

The Citizens United ruling did not invent special-interest spending; it enables corporations and unions to advocate directly on behalf of a candidate rather than running more subtle 'issue ads.'

Mae Jemison

I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.

Ben Shapiro

Google is a private company. It has the capacity to utilize its massive power for whatever political agenda it chooses. But for it to pretend to be an advocate for Internet freedom while simultaneously disadvantaging messages it finds politically incorrect is deeply hypocritical.

Don Kirkman

Tom has been a very effective advocate for the redistribution of resources for business startups. I would certainly say that many of us who are traditional practitioners of economic development become too narrowly focused on business recruitment when in fact the lion's share of jobs are generated through existing industry expansions and new business.

Oscar Arias

Latin Americans glorify their past so ceaselessly that they make it almost impossible to advocate change.

Dennis C. Blair

I know it sounds Pollyannish and 'Kumbaya'-like, but I find that the more that you expose Americans to the diversity of what's going on in China and vice versa, the more people find that there is this broad middle path. And so I'm a strong advocate of intense visits and dialogue back and forth.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Believe it or not, I'm as much a fan of a supper shortcut as the next person.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

William Hamilton

I simply can't believe nice communities release effluents.

William Kirby

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

William Hung

Whatever you believe in, and if you keep trying, you can eventually succeed.

William H. Gray

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

William John Wills

We all think we are right, or we should not believe as we do.

Whitey Ford

Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Gore Vidal

Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.

Carnie Wilson

It's more about going to a place inside of me as a woman who knows that I'm never going to have perfection. And that I deserve to be healthy and feel healthy.

Phaedrus

That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer

Pat Morelli

We played with fire and urgency, and we played with heart. There's still a feeling like I'm not satisfied. I felt like the kids deserved to win.

Jacques Lemaire

We played well. We deserved more, there's no doubt. Got to go back at it tomorrow.

Ken Hitchcock

We played a heck of a hockey game. It could have gone either way. I thought we got better and better as the game went on. We did a lot of gritty, good things in the third period. We deserved at least a point, and maybe two.

Fabio Capello

We played a good match, only the result was negative. We did not deserve defeat.

Jeff Halpern

We probably didn't deserve to be in the game. Olie played so well. We sold him out.

Sunil Mittal

If telecom are seen as a rightful infrastructure for the growth of many other sectors in the economy and the multiplier force, then I think it doesn't deserve to be taxed so high.

Walter Brennan

I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.

Wendy Cope

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.

Billy Graham

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Billy Graham

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney - for his family and our country.

Zubin Mehta

I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.

Constance Marie

My family was dubbed the loud family, but that was mostly because of my mother.

Constance Marie

I'm very supportive of women getting to a place in life when it's right for them to start a family. It's important for women to take their time to come into their own. I only want to say we might not have as much time as we think we have.

Chris Bohjalian

When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.

Joe Martin

The pioneers are giving way to some of the big guys who can weather all the change.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Lao Tzu

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Nick Vitucci

Wheeling is an opportunistic team and we are giving them too many opportunities right now. We need to get away from some of the things that are frustrating us out there.

S. Hughes

We are not giving up tax revenue. We are redirecting it to get 700 new jobs.

Eddie Martinez

We are not giving up by any means. He might be hanging out in the sand dunes.

Jim Stuart

We are not giving away condos to them.

Alan Cohen

The universe always gives you more of what you are focusing on.

Alan Cohen

Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.

David Axelrod

We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act.

Simon Cowell

I'm not sure who has the right to say that you have better taste than somebody else, because essentially what you're doing is calling millions of people morons.

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations has a proud record of helping millions of people in mine-affected countries.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

Freddy Rodriguez

If an actor is going to be an action hero, do it in a Robert Rodriguez movie, because that guy is going to make you look like a million bucks.

Nandan Nilekani

I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.

Kathy Nevill

We need to know what we're up against. We're going to probably have to look at something between $3 million and $6 million.

Ernest Hollings

We can't keep spending $100 million on embassies,

Malala Yousafzai

I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

Clive Sinclair

You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.

Ron Polk

We had nearly as many hits, but they put them together. That's what it's all about. We just spaced ours out.

Andy Duncan

We had nearly 100%of people saying they were proud to work at C4 and more than 95% said we were going in the right direction. It's staggering,

Gerard Mestrallet

We had already made a lot of progress on the project. It was nearly finished.

Romola Garai

There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.

Tony Prentice

Our whole team wrestled really solid. It was a tough tournament. There were state placers in nearly every weight class.

Roger Cox

The announcement you have today is not nearly enough. It's the tip of the iceberg.

Joe Adams

Steroids are not really needed, ... You can get nearly the same results through training.

Kristen Holloway

My nights and weekends are nearly all spent on the troops.

Ansel Elgort

With 'Carrie,' I did, like, seven auditions. I'd never done a movie, so they wanted to make sure I wasn't going to ruin it. I don't blame them.

Ashley Giles

When you're seven wickets down, all sorts of things go through your head,

Brendan Gleeson

Everyone's waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, 'Oh, I wonder will I be in the running?

Jerious Norwood

When I first got here, I took something like seven tests.

Richelle Nice

We were in there for seven months. We wanted to see it through to the end.

Jamie Woodruff

We had her for seven years until she got sick and we had to put her down, that was just in December.

Chris Palacios

The prelims went really well for me. I was kind of surprised at how well everything went. I was seeded seventh in the 50 free, which is just one spot out of the finals. Actually now I'm seeded third for the finals, which is good. I was seeded 11th in the 100 and now I'm fifth.

Denis Leary

I love to smoke. I smoke seven thousand packs a day!

John Powell

I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.

Kelis

I don't ever want to part with any of my shoes. They all have a special place in my heart because they say something about who you are today.

Bill Cowher

We didn't play well enough offensively and defensively, but I can't say enough about our special teams.

Rick Clausen

We know it could be a special year,

David Rudisha

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

Carl Hiaasen

Like Richard Price and the late, great Elmore Leonard, Matt Burgess is one of those cool, quick and funny writers who can turn a seemingly routine crime caper into something special.

Carl Jung

Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

Mark Cuban

Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work.

Eddie Marsan

I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.

Frederic Bastiat

There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.

Vladimir Yevseyev

In view of the time shortage, the status of the negotiations could also be raised.

Kent Kanoy

That's what he is, he's the status quo.

Seth Godin

Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.

Jodi Whitaker

His status is as it was in (Wednesday's) briefing.

Mary Browne

Status symbols are poor excuses for values.

Natalie Clifford Barney

In love there is no status quo.

Kofi Annan

The status quo cannot work.

Garry Kasparov

Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.

Helen Mirren

A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.